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Men are apt to offend (tis true) where they find most goodness to

Men are apt to offend (tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. – William Congreve

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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. – William Congreve

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Her face was her chaperone. – Rupert Hughes

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